sale-a-bration - StampinbyHannah

8th February 20217th February 2021

Die Cut background using Simply Succulents

Sometimes a card appears in your minds eye even before you’ve bought the stamp set or dies. This is one of those cards. I try to have a few card ideas in my head before I order a stamp set, so that I know that I can get plenty of use out of it. I don’t always manage control my heart, and some stamp sets just land in my craft room, but I try!

The Simply Succulents bundle includes this fabulous background die. However, it is sized for US card sizes, and so doesn’t quite fit the front of one of our UK cards. But I think I’ve managed to make it work here.

Before cutting this intricate die, I added a piece of Adhesive Sheet. This adds glue to the entire piece of card stock, and so makes it much easier to adhere to the card front. The ombre effect was super easy to create as well, using a piece of the Oh So Ombre Designer Series Paper which is free with a £45 order during Sale-a-bration.

Die cut thinking of you card using Simply Succulents from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

The Sentiment is taken from the Simply Succulent stamp set and die cut with another one of the Potted Succulents dies.

Product List

Simply Succulents Bundle

[156264]

£50.25

Simply Succulents Cling Stamp Set

[154480]

£20.00

Potted Succulents Dies

[154330]

£36.00

Granny Apple Green A4 Cardstock

[147014]

£8.25

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

£8.25

Adhesive Sheets

[152334]

£9.25

Versamark Pad

[102283]

£8.75

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

£5.50

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31st January 202130th January 2021

Inspire.Create.Challenge #083 | Quick and Easy birthday with Darling Donkeys

Hi all! Gosh, it’s been a mad couple of weeks. Poor baby boy had to have his 8 week vaccinations, and that’s basically had me sat on the sofa cuddling him for the past week, leaving me with no time to craft. However, I did manage to find 10 minutes a couple of weekends ago to have a quick colour of the fabulously fun Darling Donkeys for this weeks Inspire.Create.Challenge.

The theme this time around is ‘Cute Critters’ and we have so many in the Stampin’ Up! catalogues at the moment, I can’t wait to see what you all come up with.

This Donkey is stamped in Memento Black ink, and coloured using both Light and Dark Smoky Slate Stampin’ Blends, with a hint of Dark Mossy Meadow and Dark Poppy Parade for that rose.

Darling Donkeys is one of the current Sale-a-bration stamp sets, and is available for free when you spend £45 before the end of February.

I’ve paired this chap with some of the new Colour Family Designer Series Paper in Gray Granite. This paper will be available in the next Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue, or you can get it now if you grab a Stampin’ Up! Starter Kit.

Do check out the Inspire.Create.Challenge blog for more inspiration and to add your own Critter Creations!

Product List

Darling Donkeys Cling Stamp Set

[155264]

£0.00

Gray Granite A4 Cardstock

[147008]

£8.25

Neutrals 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[152485]

£10.75

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Smoky Slate Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[154904]

£8.50

Mossy Meadow Stampin' Blends Combo Pack

[148547]

£8.50

Poppy Parade Stampin' Blends Markers Combo Pack

[147275]

£8.50

Stitched Nested Labels Dies

[149638]

£33.00

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21st January 202118th January 2021

Two big Birthday Cards….

It’s a special day today for our family, its the day my husbands Great Nanny turns 100. Now, we would have dearly loved to be celebrating all together, but of course we can’t. I can, however provide her with two handmade birthday cards. So that is what I have done.

The first uses the brand new Pretty Perennials stamp set, and the coordinating dies. I absolutely LOVE this stamp set, a sweet floral stamp set that makes my heart happy. Here I’ve stamped it in Melon Mambo, Crushed Curry and Old Olive, and used the matching Perennial Petals dies to cut them out. I also added one of the more detailed dies to the large flower for a bit more interest.

The sentiment stamps are lovely in this stamp set too. Here I’ve stamped ‘Happy’ in Memento Black, and then heat embossed ‘birthday’ in white. The Designer Series Paper is called True Love, and is a lovely collection of black and white patterns and florals. The 100 is die cut using the Playful Alphabet from some retired Gold Glitter card stock.

I have a fun class coming in February using the Pretty Perennials bundle and the True Love Designer Series Paper, so do check back for that.

The second card uses both new Sale-a-bration goodies, as well as a retired gem. Now, I wouldn’t usually share a project that features a retired item, but I know so many people that have them (or similar) that I felt that I could.

This card uses the lovely Paper Blossoms Designer Series Paper which is currently available for free with a £45 spend.

The 100 is die cut from Petal Pink card stock, a colour which is featured in the Designer Series Paper, and layered over a vellum label cut from the Tasteful Labels dies.

This card is finished with the birthday sentiment, taken from Blossoms in Bloom.

Product List

Pretty Perennials Bundle

[156234]

£42.25

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

£8.25

Basic White A4 Cardstock

[159228]

£9.00

True Love Designer Series Paper

[154281]

£10.75

Melon Mambo Classic Stampin' Pad

[147051]

£7.00

Melon Mambo A4 Card Stock

[119980]

£8.25

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

[147087]

£7.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[147090]

£7.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock

[106577]

£8.25

Paper Blooms 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper

[155222]

£0.00

Petal Pink A4 Cardstock

[147009]

£8.25

Blossoms In Bloom Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[152684]

£20.00

Tasteful Labels Dies

[152886]

£29.00

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

£9.25

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9th January 20216th January 2021

Time to Sale-a-brate Berry Blessings with the Pootlers Blog Hop!

Welcome to StampinByHannah and the first Pootlers Team Blog Hop of 2021! This time we’re sharing a heap of projects using the new Sale-a-bration gifts.

There are a bunch of really cool Stamp Sets and Designer Series Paper packs that you can currently receive for FREE with an order of over £45! How cool is that?!

Berry Blessings

I thought I would create with the Berry Blessings stamp set today. This stamp set comes with a pack of Designer Series Paper and so requires a £90 spend, BUT it also coordinates with the Sweet Strawberry stamp set and punch bundle from the new Mini Catalogue!

One of the reasons I love this stamp set (and Sweet Strawberry) is that you don’t need to get the markers out to colour the images… as they all have a outline stamp and then a filled stamp to colour the image!

This card uses Misty Moonlight for the card base and the blueberries, and Pear Pizzazz for the leaves and sentiment.

Simple Stamping using Berry Blessings FREE during Sale-a-bration 2021 from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

I couldn’t pass the opportunity to stamp with blueberries either… they are my daughters absolute favourite fruit, I think she’d eat them at every meal if she could!

Check out the rest of the teams creations by clicking the images below, and I hope to see you here at StampinByHannah again soon

Product List

Berry Blessings Bundle (English)

[157613]

£0.00

Misty Moonlight A4 Cardstock

[153086]

£8.25

Misty Moonlight Classic Stampin' Pad

[153118]

£7.00

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad

[147104]

£7.00

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5th January 20212nd January 2021

Are you ready for Sale-a-bration 2021?

As well as the launch of the new January-June Mini Catalogue, today also sees the start of Sale-a-bration 2021!

This year Sale-a-bration is a little shorter, running from today (5th January) through til the 28th February. However, there will be something special coming in the middle of the year too!

As usual there are 3 fabulous parts to Sale-a-bration…

Shop

Every time you spend £45 in a single order, you get to choose a fabulous free gift! If you order £90 in a single order, you can then choose either; 2 gifts, or a fabulous stamp and Designer Series paper bundle that coordinates with one of the stamp sets in the Mini Catalogue.

Host

Earn an extra EXCLUSIVE stamp set when you host a qualifying party, or place an order of over £275!

Join

This is my favourite part of Sale-a-bration! Become a part of Stampin’ Up! by joining a fabulously friendly crafty community, receive at least 20% of every Stampin’ Up! order you place, choose £130 worth of goodies and pay just £99 PLUS receive 5 packs of 6×6″ Designer Series Paper too!

You can find all the products and details in the Sale-a-bration brochure, available HERE!

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4th March 20201st March 2020

Inspire.Create.Challenge #064 | The Gangs All Meer

Hello! Welcome to StampinByHannah today. If you’re new around here, every other Wednesday I share a project for the Inspire.Create.Challenges Design Team. I would LOVE you to pop over to the Inspire.Create blog and check out the other Design Team members creations, and maybe even share your own project with us too!

Inspire.Create.Challenge Colour Challenge Stampin' Up! Colour Combinbation idea

This time the Inspire.Create.Challenge is a very cool colour combination idea. So, we had to work with Night of Navy and Crumb cake, and then add a colour of our choice! Now, I would normally add a really bright colour to this, something like a Melon Mambo or Lovely Lipstick. But, when it came time for me to create something for this challenge, I also needed a card for my brothers birthday (and I didn’t think he would appreciate hot pink), so I added Seaside Spray for a tone on tone look

The Gangs All Meer Birthday Card using Stampin' Up! Sale-a-bration products with StampinByHannah

I’m loving these cute meerkats at the moment, and I think they make a really fun Birthday Card. Here they are stamped in Memento Black ink and then coloured in with a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Blend’s pen. The dots were hand drawn using the dark Night of Navy Blend too.

The Gangs All Meer is one of this years Sale-a-bration stamp sets, which means it is FREE with a £45 order!

Man's birthday card using The Gangs All Meer from Stampin' Up! for Inspire.Create.Challenge with StampinByHannah

The Happy Birthday sentiment is also taken from The Gangs All Meer, but the stamp is a longer sentiment. I selectively inked the stamp with Memento Ink so it simply said Happy Birthday for this card.

I would love you to pop over to Inspire.Create and I hope to see you again soon!

Product List

The Gang's All Meer Cling Stamp Set (English)

[152294]

£0.00

Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock

[106577]

£8.25

Crumb Cake A4 Card Stock

[121685]

£8.25

Seaside Spray A4 Cardstock

[150889]

£8.25

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

£9.00

Stitched Nested Labels Dies

[149638]

£33.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Night Of Navy Dark Stampin' Blends Marker

[144039]

£4.25

Crumb Cake Light Stampin' Blends Marker

[144582]

£4.25

Seaside Spray Classic Stampin’ Pad

[150085]

£7.00

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19th January 202019th January 2020

TGIF Challenges | Happy Birthday with Honey Bee

This week’s TGIF Challenge is one that I think a LOT of people can relate their crafting too… its a theme challenge and they’ve picked ‘Happy Birthday’. I don’t know about you but I make WAY more Happy Birthday cards than anything else!

Happy Birthday card using Honey Bee from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

This is one of those cards that magically appeared in my brain! Don’t you love it when that happens?! I was thinking about this weeks TGIF challenge whilst feeding my daughter, and my first thought was of inking this Designer Series Paper. This is the Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper, which is FREE with a £45 order during Sale-a-bration, but also coordinates with the Honey Bee stamp set (and matching dies!)

Cute Bee Birthday Card using Honey Bee from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

I knew I wanted to use Coastal Cabana rather than a yellow, and I wasn’t sure how it was going to work with the Bee die cut, but I think it works. The flowers are so cute, and work so well formed into a wreath. They are adhered onto a scalloped circle of vellum using Tombow glue, which was a little tricky, but you only need such a tiny amount of glue.

Product List

Honey Bee Bundle

[153792]

£38.50

Golden Honey Specialty Designer Series Paper

[152311]

£0.00

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

£8.25

Coastal Cabana Classic Stampin' Pad

[147097]

£7.00

Stamping Sponges

[141337]

£3.75

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

£9.25

Layering Circles Dies

[141705]

£33.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Card Stock A4 Coastal Cabana

[131302]

£8.25

Versamark Pad

[102283]

£8.75

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

[109132]

£5.50

Multipurpose Liquid Glue

[154974]

£3.75

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29th March 201927th March 2019

Home to Roost Birthday Card

So, today I thought I would share my final Sale-a-bration make of 2019… and James’ birthday card!

Home to Roost is available for FREE when you spend £45 before Sunday night! I cannot believe that Sale-a-bration is so nearly over… however, that does mean that we are closer to the start of the new Annual Catalogue and something very exciting that launches on Monday!

Bright and fun guys birthday card using Home to Roost from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

My top tip for guys cards is to keep things fairly simple. Here I stamped the Rooster onto Watercolour paper using Staz-on. I did use my Stamparatus for this to ensure a really deep, crisp, black image onto the bumpy paper.

Then, to add some texture I added some dots of Fine Tip Glue and let it dry really really well before watercolouring the piece in Crushed Curry, Blueberry Bushel and Real Red inks.

The other texture on the card is the embossed front using the hexagons Dynamic Embossing Folder, and then adding the watercoloured panel with dimentionals to a piece of Crushed Curry Card stock.

How to decorate the inside of a card using Home to Roost from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

I couldn’t not decorate the inside of this card (James always requests something special on the inside when I’m making a card for him to send!) and so I added some stamping and a strip of Crushed Curry card stock to finish.

Check out the the Sale-a-bration deals before they end on Sunday

Product List

Home To Roost Cling Stamp Set

[149736]

£0.00

Basic Black A4 Card Stock

[121688]

£8.00

Hexagons Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[143231]

£8.25

Itty Bitty Birthdays Cling Stamp Set

[148618]

£21.00

Watercolor Paper

[122959]

£4.75

Card Stock A4 Crushed Curry

[131288]

£8.00

Jet Black Stazon Ink Pad

[101406]

£8.25

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[131158]

£3.50

Blueberry Bushel Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[147176]

£3.50

Real Red Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[103287]

£3.50

Fine-Tip Glue Pen

[138309]

£6.50

Aqua Painters

[103954]

£16.00

Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

[145372]

£28.00

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28th March 201927th March 2019

Four All Seasons Joy Fold Birthday Card

Hello! Can you believe we are almost at the end of Sale-a-bration 2019… in fact we only have another few days as the fabulous offers end on Sunday night!

To see what Sale-a-bration is all about check my earlier blog post HERE!

Today’s card is a card I made a few weeks ago for one of my Sister-in-Law’s birthdays. I needed something a little bit special, because with my current Baby Brain actually getting around to buying her a present didn’t happen (she did get a gift card though so she can treat herself to something), and so I reached for the very lovely Painted Seasons stamp set, Designer Series Paper and coordinating dies.

Joy Fold birthday card using Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

I have been loving using these stamps and the Designer Series Paper which you can get as a bundle for FREE with a £90 order, and then the dies that match are just a must have!

This is a really easy Fancy fold card to put together. You can find all the measurements on THIS blog post from a couple of years ago.

Joy fold card using Painted Seasons from Stampin' Up! for Sale-a-bration 2019 with StampinByHannah

Then on the inside I made a little Designer Series Paper pocket to hold the gift card, simply by measuring the gift card and chopping a bit off the top. I did use a 2″ circle punch to notch the top of the pocket and make retrieving the gift a little easier too!

There isn’t a whole heap of stamping on this one really, as the paper says everything! But I did add a few succulents in coordinating Lemon Lime Twist and Pool Party along with the Berry Burst Sentiment taken from Needle and Thread.

Don’t forget to check out the last few bits of Sale-a-bration goodness, or think about taking up that fabulous Joining Offer before its too late!

Product List

Painted Seasons Bundle

[150349]

£0.00

Painted Seasons Designer Series Paper

[149574]

£0.00

Basic Gray A4 Card Stock

[121689]

£8.00

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

£9.00

Lemon Lime Twist Classic Stampin' Pad

[147145]

£7.00

Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad

[147107]

£7.00

Berry Burst Classic Stampin' Pad

[147143]

£7.00

Needle & Thread Photopolymer Stamp Set

[148724]

£20.00

Four Seasons Framelits Dies

[150074]

£26.00

2" Circle Punch

[133782]

£17.00

To purchase any of the items featured in my projects please use the links above. To join my team of Stampin’ Friends select ‘Join My Team’ or send me a message!

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20th March 201917th March 2019

Inspire.Create.Challenge 039 | Bike Ride For You

You wouldn’t think I set these challenges… because this week had me totally stumped! Inspire.Create.Challenge 039 is a theme challenge, and the theme is pets!

Now, I do have a pet, the very lovely Freda the Cat, and if I had been super organised I would have made a fabulous scrapbook page, or a frame with her in, or something. However, as I mentioned on Monday, this past few weeks have left me a more than a little behind. So, I managed find the time and energy to make this project on Sunday… so reaching for the nearest stamp set featuring an animal!

Inspire.Create.Challege 039 Pet themed card using Bike Ride from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

So, Bike Ride it is! This stamp set is so sweet, with that cute dog. The bike is stamped in Poppy Parade and Memento Black, while the dog is actually Crushed Curry and Blueberry Bushel! I just love 2-step stamping and this stamp set is perfect for this fun technique. The dog in particular is stamped using 3 separate stamps, they line up really easily, and it creates this really lovely multi-coloured stamped image too.

To you card using Bike Ride from Stampin' Up! with StampinByHannah

The background is an embossed piece of Vellum. I have fallen back in love with dry embossing thanks to the very lovely Country Floral Dynamic Embossing Folder which is currently FREE with a £45 order during Sale-a-bration AND has been confirmed as being carried forward into next years Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue.

The sentiment is actually taken from a Christmas stamp set, Merry Christmas to All, stamped in Memento Black ink to match the bike!

Check out the Inspire.Create.Challenge Blog to see the other Pet themed creations made by the rest of the Design Team and share your Pet makes with us to!

Product List

Bike Ride Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143716]

£20.00

Build A Bike Framelits Dies

[143729]

£25.00

Poppy Parade A4 Cardstock

[121694]

£8.00

White Vellum A4 Card Stock

[106584]

£8.25

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

£9.00

Poppy Parade Classic Stampin' Pad

[147050]

£7.00

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad

[147087]

£7.00

Blueberry Bushel Classic Stampin' Pad

[147138]

£7.00

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Country Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

[149698]

£0.00

To purchase any of the items featured in my projects please use the links above. To join my team of Stampin’ Friends select ‘Join My Team’ or send me a message!

Please support StampinByHannah, and enter my Code Club Code. For orders of over £150 please do not use this code, as you are entitled to your own Hostess benefits!

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